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You must be mistaken. The fan was installed for Flash. This is why Flash needs to die; so Apple can exclude the fan and make a smaller, lighter notebook.

• nitrogen 16y ago
  I'm not familiar with Apple-related net memes, but is this a joke or is it the actual reason for having a fan? If it's not Flash that makes the CPU run at 100%, it could be anything else. I'd hate to have a notebook that I couldn't run at 100% CPU if I wanted to. Let me encode video on the go, or run a parallel build. Removing the fan when there's still a thermal vulnerability would be unwise.
  • mikeklaas 16y ago
    I'm not sure what to say except: yes, it is a joke.
  • chc 16y ago
    The background: A lot of Mac users (myself included, in the interest of disclosure) feel that Flash's performance on the Mac is piss-poor in the average case (e.g. making the fans go wild even when not doing anything all that fancy) and advocate for Web standards like HTML and JavaScript to be used in its place wherever possible, because at least those can be improved independent of Adobe, whom they perceive to be lax in supporting niche platforms. Other people feel that this first group is deluded by Apple propaganda and naive to believe that JavaScript performance will be any better than Flash. Thus, the parent was mocking these JavaScript advocates on the basis that the scripts on this page were performing badly on the GP's system.
    • gregschlom 16y ago
      And the fact that this script is made by Apple itself only adds to the irony
      • melling 16y ago
        Sounds like a perfect opportunity for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or a new company to build a better browser than Safari. Apple is using an open technology implemented by several competing organizations.